Who Was John Maynard Keynes?

Updated Dec. 28, 2000 12:01 a.m. ET

By Warwick Lightfoot. Mr. Lightfoot, an economist, was special adviser to the chancellor of the exchequer from 1989 to 1992.

J ohn Maynard Keynes was without doubt the most famous economist of the 20th century. No economist in the past 100 years had a greater impact on economic theory and few economists have ever enjoyed the same direct influence on the conduct of public policy. In terms of being a fascinating and magnetizing...